'It took me four years to write a joke'
Victoria Wood on Desert Island Discs
23/12/2007 … Victoria Wood has admitted it took her four years to learn how to write a joke.
Sun 23 December 2007
Sat 22 December 2007
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22/12/2007 … JOHN MOLONEY, Pappy's Fun Club, Shappi Khorsandi, Josie Long and Wil Hodgson have been added to the list of Brits attending the 2008 Melbourne Comedy Festival.
Why men are funnier than women
... according to one scientist
22/12/2007 … Scientists have waded into an age-old debate and concluded that men are funnier than women.
Kay's Cash row
22/12/2007 … Peter Kay’s new TV show has reportedly been ditched, after a row with writer Craig Cash over money.
Brand stars in Morrissey video
22/12/2007 … Russell Brand is to star in the new video for his musical hero, Morrissey.
Fri 21 December 2007
© 20th Century Fox Borat is dead
Baron Cohen says he won't return to the role
21/12/2007 … Sacha Baron Cohen says he will never play Borat again, now the character has become too popular to be convincing.
boswell21
21/12/2007 … STEWART LEE's Edinburgh Fringe play Johnson and Boswell: Late But Live, starring Simon Munnery and Miles Jupp, is to tour Scotland in the spring.
Glastonbury co-founder dies
Churchill's granddaughter ran the comedy tent
21/12/2007 … Arabella Churchill, the granddaughter of Sir Winston Churchill who programmed the comedy tent at the Glastonbury festival, died yesterday.